A report in the Hobart Town Gazette stated: ?it is with pain we learn that a skirmish has taken place between a numerous tribes of the black natives, and some stock-keepers, on the other side of the island, in which many of the former were severely wounded, if not slain. They made, it would appear, an outrageous attack on the cattle and persons of the stockmen, and provoked them to fire in self-defence.? A week later, the Hobart Town Gazette reported that following the skirmish, Cupit and some stock keepers attacked a Pallittorre [Port Sorell] camp at night and killed more than six people.

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